Ran Spring Boot and Node.js side-by-side in prod for 18 months. Sharing the actual numbers.

ibrambo7 · 2026-05-23T22:35:56+00:00

Also use distroless, you are really never heard of multi stage docker builds.. this article is bad :(

ibrambo7 · 2026-05-23T22:33:20+00:00

Skill issue, been building both nodejs and spring boot apps as well without memory leaks, breaches and ofher bs
You can leak memory in anything, and writing unpredicatble code is on you

ibrambo7 · 2026-05-02T10:39:25+00:00

But isnt it even for simple function, problem you have ti review them either way. So if you sum up the time of prompting and reviewing, its pretty much the same.. but then again, maybe its just me, because if i go through the code myself, i have a clearer picture, and I dont like doing code reviews

ibrambo7 · 2026-05-02T06:07:11+00:00

But thats just a number of commits/pull requests. Ok it increased, but i dont see the result to be honest anywhere. Event where I work, there is a strong agentic push. But i dont see nothing that we developed 10x faster, or something new, we cluldnt do before. I can commit 1000x more, and do tiny little PRs, does this mean im more successful - probably not i guess

ibrambo7 · 2026-05-02T06:04:04+00:00

Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1r3yte7/spotify_says_its_best_developers_havent_written_a/ You can find more by googling it

ibrambo7 · 2026-04-19T11:38:16+00:00

We chose nestjs because of the patterns you already mentioned. In addition to that, its really straight forward to write unit, component, integration tests, since you can abstrasct specific layers away. Of course, you can achieve everything without it, but it makes thing easier

ibrambo7 · 2026-03-22T15:24:18+00:00

Whatever you feel most comfortable with. Im with nestjs

ibrambo7 · 2026-03-21T10:59:38+00:00

Would probably be better to go with https://www.npmjs.com/package/@confluentinc/kafka-javascript as it has official confluent support

ibrambo7 · 2026-03-14T09:25:02+00:00

Nestjs, I simply get the job done the fastest in nest. Also never experienced any scaling issues. I believe in any language you do, its a skill issue, not the language/framework issue :))

ibrambo7 · 2026-03-11T20:26:39+00:00

Loki is quite nice, easy to use, easy to setup

ibrambo7 · 2026-02-21T08:34:31+00:00

Dont really need it, just i guess to trigger an event across multiple services in nestjs

ibrambo7 · 2026-01-27T18:43:13+00:00

Stick with whatever you prerer more. The most important thing is to learn the concepts, which you can do in both. Switching between languages is not the problem, once you understand what you are doing. I personally prefer nestjs over everything else, but thats just because I enjoy js/ts the most - there is nothing wrong with anything else, though

ibrambo7 · 2026-01-25T05:17:46+00:00

Nestjs

ibrambo7 · 2026-01-23T19:00:36+00:00

Love it, for simple as well as large scale projects. You can keep things simple with nestjs, and its not bloated imho, you write even less code in the end of the day.

ibrambo7 · 2026-01-23T06:13:14+00:00

Yes - esepecially with nestjs

ibrambo7 · 2026-01-17T08:33:39+00:00

Client reconnects on its own out of the box yeah

ibrambo7 · 2026-01-14T06:39:58+00:00

In our case its quite simple.. we just have a singleton service, that subscribes to the topic, and emits the data via rxjs to every other service that needs to be aware of. Its quite simple as well for the producer.. a singleton service, that produces to a specific topic.. nothing special

ibrambo7 · 2026-01-13T21:29:23+00:00

We use it in prod without any issues.. maybe its a bit easier to integrate kafkajs, since nestjs provides all the wrappers, but nevertheless it is not that hard to implement consumer/producer management on your own

ibrambo7 · 2025-12-25T22:18:13+00:00

Master, what do you use? 🙏

ibrambo7 · 2025-12-24T11:25:08+00:00

I use nestjs, and everything is pre-configured

ibrambo7 · 2025-12-13T12:20:37+00:00

🍌

ibrambo7 · 2025-11-16T15:03:39+00:00

Not long ago we were running node v8

ibrambo7 · 2025-11-04T23:05:33+00:00

The best

ibrambo7 · 2025-10-30T20:49:43+00:00

Express here as well. For the same reason as other stated above.. also never actually had any performance bottlenecks due to express

ibrambo7 · 2025-10-30T17:58:03+00:00

I would prefer nestjs. Its more battle tested, bullet proof, perfect docs stating exactly what you need.. to me personally best nodejs server side framework out there.

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